Akathistos

Found on Mimi’s blog.

What books have you read? Bold the ones you have read, italicize the ones you are planning on reading and underline the ones you loved:

1.Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen -One of my favorite of Austen’s
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien – I think I’ve started it at least twice- can’t get through it.
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte – One of my ALL-TIME favorites.
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - I have to read them as quickly as possible.  Each took me no more than three days to read.  I love them!
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee -High School and then again in college (English Ed major).
6. The Bible – I wish I read more of it than I do…l maybe I should stop blogging
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - Not one of my favorite, but it is one of my father’s favorite movies.
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell- I’ve read it several times, but, whatever you do, don’t rent the movie.  It is terrible!
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens- High School, but don’t remember much of it.
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott – Wonderful, wonderful.  I need to read this again.
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy –I starting reading this right before I got married and ended up having to take my antique copy of the book on our honeymoon so that I could finish it.
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller- Not a huge fan of this one, but an interesting idea for a novel.
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare - Who can really say that they have read EVERYTHING? I’ve read A LOT.  I love Much Ado About Nothing- cracks me up.
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier – Read it when I was younger.  I am shocked at how many of these books I have read!
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien – I loved this as a child.  My father used to read it to me and my sister before bed.
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks – Sounds familiar, but I am not sure what book this is.  I need to google it.  I looked it up- and I definitley have not heard of it before.
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - I really love this book… I hope that doesn’t mean I am going to turn into a serial killer or something scary like that.
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger – I am guessing that since this is one of Mimi’s favorites, I need to read it.
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot – I’ve owned it for years, but have never read it.
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell – FACT: I stayed home sick from school in 4th grade and read this entire book in ONE DAY.  Loved it!
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - I fell in love with this book in High School and became temporarily obsessed with the Roaring Twenties.  The movie is pretty good to- very accurate.
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens- Not a fan of Dickens; sorry.
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy- I should probably read this at some point.
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams – I was just talking with my priest and his wife about this book last night, but I still have no interest in reading it.
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh -I don’t know anything about this book.
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - I read it in college and like it a lot.  I should probably read it again.
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - I’ve read this book a couple of times.  For me, it is the kind of book that you can put down and easily pick up again later.
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll- Funny that I’ve never read this.
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame- Read it as a child, but don’t remember anything about it.
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy- Read it in college and ended up writing the final essay on it- everyone thought I was crazy for choosing that book out of all the other SHORT ones.
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis- My father read the first two to me when I was a child, but then I read the entire collection in about one week right before Grace was born.
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen- I’ve been looking for this everywhere.  Anyone want to lend it to me?
36. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini- I’ve heard really good things.
37. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres – I was shocked that I liked the movie, so I think I will read this.
38. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden- I’ve read this at least two times and really liked it.
39. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne- I am not a huge fan of Winnie the Pooh.
40. Animal Farm - George Orwell- I taught this to my 10th graders- fun stuff.
41. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown- I really liked this as an easy-shut-your-mind-off type of read.
42. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
43. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving So the movie isn’t really anything like the book, but I love them both!!
44. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins - Don’t know this one either.
45. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - Loved these!  It makes me want to read them now.
46. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
47. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
48. Lord of the Flies - William Golding- Taught it.
49. Atonement - Ian McEwan
50. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
51. Dune - Frank Herbert
52. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
53. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen- This IS my favorite Austen (and the Ang Lee movie is my all time favorite movie!)
54. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
55. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
56. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens- High School, not all it is cracked up to be.
57. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley- Good book.
58. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
59. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez- I forgot that I wanted to read this.
60. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck- Wonderful story.  And a quick read.
61. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
62. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
63. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - haha!  I love Mimi’s response.  I, on the otherhand, actually liked it, but I got her newer novel out of the library- TERRIBLE!
64. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
65. On The Road - Jack Kerouac -
66. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
67. Bridget Jones’ Diary - Helen Fielding
68. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
69. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
70. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
71. Dracula - Bram Stoker
72. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - As a child.
73. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
74. Ulysses - James Joyce
75. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath- Another good one.  Completely depressing, but good.
76. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
77. Germinal - Emile Zola
78. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
79. Possession - AS Byatt -
80. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens- Way too much Dickens on this list for me.
81. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
82. The Color Purple - Alice Walker- Fantastic!!  I wish I could have taught this.
83. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
84. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert- College.
85. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
86. Charlotte’s Web - EB White - I can’t read this book without crying.
87. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
88. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
89. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
90. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
91. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - My hubby and I read this together in one night
92. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
93. Watership Down - Richard Adams
94. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
95. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute- never heard of this one.
96. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
97. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
98. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
99. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain- I taught this one as well.
and adding MY personal favorite:
100. Drowing Ruth by Christina Schwartz- Not a classic or anything like that, but I’ve recommended it to several people and they have also like it.  And it is an easy read.

48 out of 100.

I need to write some of these down so that I remember to read them.